ON Wednesday, March 19 a boy’s cricket team travelled to Glen Innes to play against Ross Hill Public school, from Inverell.
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The team included Jamie Benstead, Samson Pitt, Will Holley, Macca Cox, Alex Butler, Tyran Petrie, Fletcher Koch, Aymon Rhodes, Adam Hayne, Tobi Lieberman, Adam Thomas and Jayden Swan.
These boys were selected from over thirty students who attended trials with Stephen Manser earlier in the year.
The team played well against a strong Ross Hill team that was made up predominantly of year six students.
Our team was sent into bat against some fast and consistent bowling from the Ross Hill students.
This made it difficult for the Tenterfield boys to play shots. Our defensive game was strong, but a swinging ball found the stumps too many times. Our year three students were the stand outs with the bat.
Fletcher Koch played some confident shots and the Ross Hill players became frustrated when they could not remove Adam Thomas and Tobi Lieberman. The boys ended up being bowled out for 35 runs in the 21st over. The boys did well to face over 120 deliveries.
Tenterfield's bowling and fielding was impressive too, probably better than that of Ross Hill.
The outstanding wicket-keeping skills of Will Holley prevented many runs being scored down the leg-side. Consistent bowling from the Tenterfield team meant that the Ross Hill batsman would need to score the runs, rather than rely on bad deliveries.
Jamie Benstead and Aymon Rhodes took some great early wickets putting Ross Hill on the back foot. Unfortunately, Ross Hill threw the bat at the ball when it was needed and scored boundaries, something Tenterfield was unable to do in their innings.
Ross Hill reached the total in the twelfth over with the loss of four wickets. All of the Tenterfield boys got a bowl and dismissed Ross Hill for 57 runs.
The Sir Henry Parkes boys were very proud of their efforts considering their age and size. Cricket is very strong in Inverell and it was always going to be a tough game.
This is the first year that the school has entered a male and female team into the PSSA cricket competition. The experience alone will benefit the year three boys and the school should have a strong cricket team in the years to come.
Stephen Manser